SU Podium V2.8 was released. It's an evolutionary released not revolutionary but there's things that will please many customers. Most significant to some users is that multi-byte texture names, output folder names are supported. For general purpose - 2.8 now supports color reflections of light passing through colored faces. On/ Off switch in the Options / Environment dialog controls that. Read about 2.8 here - http://www.suplugins.com/whatsnew-v28.php

Mine is not slower, but geometry caching is not working. I tried uninstall/reinstall, but no change. In 2.7 with geometry caching on sometimes I would get an empty render - just the sky. This way it is better because I often woke up in the morning to see a number of 8 sec. renderings.__________________"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I haven't modified anything. Same model, same preset, same image size. Just different views. It's not a big problem at least for me although those exports are consuming my CPU so rendering is a bit slower. I'm running win7 64, SU8, podium 2.8

Another thing I noticed - subsequent exporting takes more and more of my RAM and even after it is finished, RAM is still used. It builds up over a few exports and then I have to shut SU down to prevent 100% mem usage. It gradually increses while exporting. Strange thing is that when I sum mem usage of all of the processes(all users) mem usage is about 2.7 Gb / 8 Gb total, but in the status bar it says 84% physical memory. And resource monitor says 0% free.

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